“Sure, an SUV work?”
“Yes. Can you meet me at the hospital? In parking garage C, fourth floor?”
“I’ll be there in about ten minutes.”
“Thanks, Overdrive.”
I hung up, fully aware that I hadn’t told him what he was about to walk into. I’d only answered some basic questions, like was I okay. But he was the one who’d offered to help. Who said he was military. And I had no one else I could trust. Gary couldn’t handle a situation like this and he also couldn’t keep his trap shut. The whole hospital would know what was going on if I told him. I wanted to keep my job, thank you very much.
I really didn’t know how Overdrive was going to react either. He could very well call the cops on me. Which I would deal with if I needed to. I had a handy skill of being able to cry on command and I could claim I’d been so scared I didn’t know what to do.
Taking a hold of Rhino’s arm once more, I used my whole body, and all my strength, to move him a couple feet into a darker section of the garage. I was panting and sweating by the time I was done, but at least he wasn’t lying out in the open in case someone walked by. All I could do now was wait for Overdrive to show up. And hope he didn’t turn me in. I didn’t exactly have any other choice though. Keeping a close eye on Rhino in case I needed to stick him again, I waited for the biker I’d just met to show up and rescue me.
CHAPTER 7
Overdrive
“Rue?” I called out, head out the window of the SUV as I looked around for her. She stepped out of the shadows and waited as I parked the SUV nearby. “Hey,” I said, stepping out of the vehicle.
“Hi.”
She looked nervous. Her eyes were darting to mine then away and she was wringing her hands.
“Everything okay?” I asked. I knew something was up since she’d called me. She’d sounded slightly frantic on the phone and I hadn’t bothered to ask what was going on. All I’d wanted to know was how to get to her. I frowned. That wasn’t like me. I wasn’t the knight in shining armor type usually.
“Um.” She hesitated, then sighed. “You’re going to think I’m insane.”
Okay. That wasn’t a great sign. I went through my mental rolodex of crazy behavior from women in my past, but couldn’tcome up with a reason for me to be in this parking garage. So I stayed quiet and waited.
“I got this,” she said pointing to her fading black eye, “from a man the other night. I barely got away from him.”
Narrowing my eyes, I fought to keep my cool. I hated fuckers who beat women. Boiled my fucking blood. “Boyfriend?” I asked even though she’d denied having one before.
“No. I don’t have a boyfriend. He’s a stranger.”
I frowned. “Maybe you should just tell me everything.”
“I will, but first I think we should load him into your vehicle and go. Then I’ll explain.” She gave me another nervous look.
“Load him into…” I followed her as she went back around the cage ride and there, lying in the shadows on the concrete was a guy. A big guy. Like a Bolo-sized guy. “Is he dead?” Now my mental rolodex was on fire, and my dick was hard. I didn’t know what I’d stepped into but I was excited. And wasn’t that fucked up? Though Kilo had always said I was attracted to crazy women. Turned out he wasn’t wrong. Who knew?
“No. I injected him with a sedative,” she said. “He somehow found out I worked here and came after me.”
That was pretty much all I needed to know. I kicked him in the ribs and heard a satisfying crunch. At least one broke. I’d save the rest for when he woke up. The fucker had attacked her here at her job? Asshole deserved everything I’d give him. I’d find out the rest later because she was right. Anyone could drive or walk past right now and we’d have a lot of explaining to do. I understood now why she looked so nervous. She was wondering if I was going to help her or call the cops on her.
I must’ve been her last resort since I was a stranger, but for some reason she didn’t want law enforcement involved and that was damn fine by me. I liked handling things my own way. Too many years making decisions in the field while deployed and now doing what I wanted with my club. I wasn’t a part of politesociety anymore. She didn’t know that though. At least not yet. But she must suspect, or maybe she was desperate and blindly hoping.
Bending over, I grabbed the guy beneath the arms and grunted as I dragged him to the back of the SUV. He weighed a fucking ton. I was irrationally angry at Bolo. Like, big guys should always be on hand to move other big guys. It’s an unwritten rule. But I wasn’t about to wait for him to make the drive over here. He should’ve just known to be here. Fucking inconsiderate. “Grab that door.”
She opened the back door and I huffed as I shoved his dead weight into the back like he was a bag of laundry. “Couldn’t have gone up against a smaller bastard?” I grunted as I shoved his legs into the back and then slid his body in enough to close the hatch.
She gave a soft laugh and shook her head. “I would’ve preferred that, too.”
“Get in,” I told her.
Once we were both in the SUV and on the road, I looked over at her. “You okay?”
“Yeah, a couple bruises, but I hit him with that sedative before he could do any real damage.”
